Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Study of the Transient Response of Tympanic Membranes Under Acoustic Excitation....Pages 1-9
Directional Failure of Tendons in the Presence of a Notch Defect....Pages 11-14
Age and Regional Dependence of Collagen Crimp in Heart Valves....Pages 15-23
The Cohesive Law and Toughness of Engineering and Natural Adhesives....Pages 25-33
Comparing the Passive Biomechanics of Tension-Pressure Loading of Porcine Renal Artery and Its First Branch....Pages 35-40
Indentation Measurements on Soft Materials Using Optical Surface Deformation Measurements....Pages 41-51
Cadaveric Femoral Fractures in a Fall on the Hip Configuration....Pages 53-57
Correlation of Multi-scale Modeling and Experimental Results for the Elastic Modulus of Trabecular Bone....Pages 59-65
Analysis of Stress Distribution Caused by Orthodontic Correctional Devices....Pages 67-73
Hierarchical Bionanomaterials Under the Hammer: High-Rate Response of Silks....Pages 75-77
A Novel Dental Restorative Composite Fabricated with Nanostructured Poly(KAMPS)/Aragonite Filler....Pages 79-82
The Effect of Dilution in Natural and Bio-inspired Staggered Composites....Pages 83-91
New Insight into the Toughening Mechanisms of Nacre....Pages 93-98
Heterogeneity in Microscopic Residual Stress in the Aortic Wall....Pages 99-106
Measuring and Modeling Morphogenetic Stress in Developing Embryos....Pages 107-115
Residual Stress and Structural Anisotropy of Cortical Bone....Pages 117-122
Microcracking Morphology and Structure Optimization of Compact Bovine Bone Under Impact Loading....Pages 123-126
Biomechanical Response of Blast Loading to the Head Using 2D-3D Cineradiographic Registration....Pages 127-134
Dynamic Analysis of a Spread Cell Using Finite Element Method....Pages 135-140
Imaging Targets to Identify Chromosomal Abnormalities in Cells....Pages 141-145
3D Neutrophil Tractions in Changing Microenvironments....Pages 147-154
Correlations Between Quantitative MR Imaging Properties and Viscoelastic Material Properties of Agarose Gel....Pages 155-161
Electrostatic Actuation Based Modulation of Interaction Between Protein and DNA Aptamer....Pages 163-167
The Relation Between Crispness and Texture Properties of Wax Apple....Pages 169-172
Fabrication and Mechanical Characterization of Jute Fiber/Epoxy Laminar Composites....Pages 173-177
A Fractional Pressure-Volume Model of Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics in Hydrocephalus....Pages 179-184
Site-Specific Diagnostic Evaluation of Hard Biological Tissues Using Solitary Waves....Pages 185-189